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Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible
Dates: 22 January - 2 February, 2008
Reception: Friday, 25th January, 2008 from 6 - 9 pm.

Venue: William Warren Library, Henry B. Thompson Building (4th Floor).
Jim Thompson Art Center, Kasemsan Soi 2, Patumwan, Bangkok
(BTS: National Stadium Station)

New video works by Irish artists selected by Pallas Contemporary
Projects for Project 304, Bangkok: www.project304.org
Aideen Barry, Anne Maree Barry, Daren Bolger,
Cliona Harmey, Gavin Murphy, Kelly O'Connor, Fiona Whitty.

Taking as its premise a sideways gaze at the truths of the
world, Pallas Contemporary Projects presents an exhibition
of probing video by contemporary artists working in Ireland.
In partnership with Project 304, 'Heavier-than-air flying
machines are impossible' will present these artworks for
the first time to a new audience in Bangkok. The exhibition
will connect a circle that started with 'Head or Tail'
contemporary video work from Thailand, curated by Gridthiya
Gaweewong and Michael Shoawanasai, that recently was exhibited
in Pallas Contemporary Projects' gallery in Dublin
(19 October - 4 November 2007).

Questioning accepted patterns in society and physical
day-to-day experience, these artists unpack and rework
reality. Always in transit, moving and questioning our
assumptions, the artists ask how tenable the rules are
and what indeed these rules are? Do we make proposals that
cannot be proved? Where are the facts? And is it possible
to look again clearly at our reality? 'Heavier-than-air
flying machines are impossible' measures and checks this
different shifting world, and brings together indefinite
results.

(William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin [1824-1907] was an Irish
mathematical physicist and engineer and a leader in the
physical sciences of the 19th century. He is widely known
for developing the Kelvin scale of absolute temperature
measurement. His proposition of 1895 that heavier-than-air
flying machines are impossible, however, was proven false
eight years later with the flight of Orville and Wilbur
Wright's Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk in 1903.)

Project 304 is an independent art organization, founded
in 1996 to support contemporary artistic and cultural
activities through art exhibitions as well as media and
time-based works and events including the Bangkok
Experimental Film Festival (BEFF).
http://www.project304.org/

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible
Dates: 22 January - 2 February, 2008
Reception: Friday, 25th January, 2008 from 6 - 9 pm.

Venue: William Warren Library, Henry B. Thompson Building (4th Floor).

Jim Thompson Art Center, Kasemsan Soi 2, Patumwan, Bangkok

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